100% Safe Shopping Guarantee

We
have taken many steps to ensure the security of your transaction.
These involve adopting industry standards. (For example, the secure
connection between your browser and sensitive portions of our site
uses industry standard encryption.)

To
show our faith in this system, we guarantee it. There is no risk,
period. If anything happens, we'll make sure that you owe nothing.
Our aim is simply to enable you to make transactions with confidence.

It's
important to know that since lasergifts.com went online in 1999,
there have been no confirmed cases of fraud reported by customers
as a
result of credit card purchases made here.

Several
things conspire to make Internet security a newsworthy item. First,
it's relatively new, so people wonder and talk and write about it.
Secondly, the Internet is "technology", so people find it interesting
to discuss. And tend to be a little suspicious of it.

The
Internet is built and thrives on openness. It has been the "Internet
way" for someone to release something—a piece of software, a networking
specification, a security protocol—and then have lots of smart people
try to find flaws in it, lending their ideas for making it better.
It has proven to be a remarkably effective development process. But
for people unfamiliar with it, to see each new release of a browser,
for example, get picked apart, can be rather disconcerting.

Regardless
of what happens on our site — a slip of the mouse (unlikely), a security
breach (highly unlikely) — there is no risk to you. In the case of
fraud, we'll assume all liability for what you owe. In most states,
this means that we'll pick up the first $50, and the credit card
company takes responsibility for the rest. In addition, we'll do
our very best to work with the credit card company to minimize the
hassle for you.

As
with our merchandise guarantee, there are no conditions and no second-guessing.
If you think something's wrong, then it is — and we'll fix it.

That
said, the past few years have proven that shopping from our
secure web server is not only safe, but one of the safest ways you
can shop. Since lasergifts.com went online in 1999, there has not
been one confirmed case of fraud.

In
order to be accurate, we're going to get a bit detailed here. When
buying something on the Internet, there are three things to be sure
of:

Data you send is strongly encrypted.

The site you're doing business with is the site
you think it is.

The site you're doing business with processes
your credit card and address information in a safe and responsible
manner.

Points
1 and 2 are taken care of by SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), the
industry standard security protocol that lasergifts.com’s site
uses to communicate with secure browsers like Netscape and Internet
Explorer. When communicating with a secure server like ours,
these browsers encrypt the information you send in a way that is extremely difficult
for anyone else to decode. (You don't have to know whether
your browser supports secure transactions— if it doesn't, you won't
be able to complete the checkout process.) We've included a visual
representation below of what to look for in your browser window to
see if you're viewing a site securely. Many security experts say
the most important thing is what happens once the merchant receives
your order. At lasergifts.com, we take several steps to keep things
on our end as safe as possible. For example, we keep orders encrypted
until we're ready to process them. We process orders several times
each hour, so they don't "sit" anywhere very long.

Most
of the activity on our site involves the viewing of materials we've
prepared and made accessible to everyone, so there's no need for
these pages to be "secure". With a product page or an editorial page
for example, no security risk exists because there is no "information" being
exchanged. Anyone can access the same pages by pointing their browser
to http://www.lasergifts.com. The portion
of the lasergifts.com site we've made secure is, not surprisingly,
the checkout area. This is where you actually purchase the items
you've put into your Shopping Bag. The entire checkout process, from
introduction to final confirmation, takes place in a secure environment.
There are several ways to confirm that you're in a secure area. All
SSL capable browsers have a symbol to indicate secure mode. Specifically:

Browser

Symbol
Location

Normal
(Insecure) mode Symbol

Secure
Mode Symbol

Netscape
1.2, 2.0 and 3.0

Lower
left

Broken
Key

Complete
Key

Netscape
Communicator (4.0)

Lower
left

Open
Lock

Closed
Lock

Microsoft
Internet Explorer

Lower
Right

NONE

Closed
Lock

You
can also tell when you're in a secure area because the URL to the
left of the colon changes from 'http' to 'https' to signify that
a SSL protocol is being used to communicate with the server. (http = HyperTextTransport Protocol;
https = HTTP with SSL.) In most browsers you'll also
see a solid blue line in the upper portion of the browser's window — another
visual aid that lets you know you're browsing
a secure area. One additional note: some browsers give you a warning
when you go from a secure area to a regular area. The aim is worthy
enough— to ensure that people know when they've left a secure server.
But in practice, the message is often a bit startling, and makes
it look like you've done something wrong even though you really haven't.